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harried

[ har-eed ]

adjective

  1. harassed, agitated, or troubled by or as if by repeated attacks; beleaguered:

    This book is a balm for the harried, doubt-filled soul of a parent.

  2. ravaged or devastated, as in war:

    Since leaving France, the Fourth Battalion had depended for its food on what it could glean from a harried countryside.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of harry ( def ).

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Example Sentences

A harried-sounding woman answered the phone at a publicly listed number for Warnack on Friday.

He is sighted just off-stage, harried look on his face, occasionally smiling.

He would do a harried married man or an old horse on its last legs or a bop musician named Cool Cees or a whole Italian movie.

It was hard not to love him when even his desperate, harried mother wanted him dead.

The commentator Andrew Sullivan harried McCain about the risks of war, recalling Iraq.

Thence sailing west came he to Borgundarholm (Bornholm) and made thereon a landing and harried all in the isle.

And when he was come to the realm over which Earl Hakon had rule harried he there, laying bare all the land.

From the castle he harried the whole neighbourhood, threatened Bath, and sold his prisoners as slaves to Ireland.

There he plundered widely; and he put in also to Lofufjord with his host, and going up onto the land harried there likewise.

Next summer called out King Harald an host and fared to Denmark where he harried during the summer.

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